Chapter 6 - Trapped!

The tension in the air is sure high. Guru stands right in front of me with his fists clench. Seems like he is warming up. I ready myself by raising both my fists and keeping a close distance between my legs just like mom thought me to fight him. "You ready?" Guru asks me like his already ready. His not even taking a fighting stance or most probably he doesn't have one and relies on his brute strength. Whatever the case, his a complete powerhouse of the criminals. Taking him out most probably means taking half of their manpower out. What matters here is my speed, I am for sure faster then him without magic. If not, this is going to be much tougher then I would have ever anticipated.

I blink and Guru rushes towards me. I ready myself. His fast. Tsch! For a huge man, he sure is fast. Well, one of my fears came through. Guru readies his right fist to punch me. I strafe to my right and dodge the punch.

*Swoop*

Just then I see another punch coming towards me from the right. I use my left hand and catch Guru's left wrist. Damn, his hand his really packing a lot of strength. Then again, what would you expect from such a huge man. He doesn't waste any time to use his right hand to punch me. I catch his right wrist with my right hand. "Well, well, you are strong for someone of your size." Guru says to me. "Hey, I am 5'8 alright. That is not small at all." I say to Guru. "That is what I mean. You have got a well built physical body to stop my punches just like that but..." Guru kicks me in my guts with his right leg.

*Kick*

I hold my gut and get push back by Guru. Damn, his kick hurts like hell. "...You give away a lot of open spots when your fighting." Guru says to me. "You have a good stance which doesn't give any open spots but...You lose that stance while dodging or attacking. Which is bad." Wait...Is Guru giving me advice?

I recover and take my stance again. "Hey, isn't giving your opponent advice kind of bad?" I ask Guru. "It is but I enjoy beating an opponent who is worthy of the beat-down." Guru replies. "Fair enough." I say. "Get ready! Here comes my second wave." My stance doesn't give many open spots...Something my mom said a long time ago. I have to figure out what that means...I have at least 5 seconds to figure out until Guru's fist reaches my face. I definitely don't want to feel his punches if his kick felt that hard.

Here he comes...What do I do? What do I do? "Your stance leaves no opening whatsoever." That's what mom said when she used to teach me martial arts and that's what Guru said now too. Guru also mentioned about me losing the stance. So what if...I wait for his fist to get near my face and then...

*SWOOP*

Strafe and dodge the punch but instead of going into any direction go forward and punch him.

*SMACK*

Guru gets knocked back by some distance from me. "Well...You learn fast I see." Guru says to me. "You were the one who tipped me about never changing my stance." I say to Guru. "I didn't expect you to figure it out this quickly though. You are quite good!" Guru says with a smile. I smile back at him. Guru runs towards me and I run towards Guru. Both of us go for a punch and both our fists connect.

*SMASH*

We both begin pummelling our fists into each others. Guru tries to kick me but I block him. Damn, his fast. I go for a face on his punch, straight after I blocked his kick with my leg.

*CRACK*

I land a punch on his face and he lands a punch on mine.

*SPOOSH*

Guru grabs my hairs and smacks my face into his knee.

*SMACK*

My nose begins to bleed as I step back. "You are doing well." Guru says as I clean up my bleeding nose and he cleans up his bleeding lower lip. I run towards Guru again but this time I use the help of the machine to get a higher ground. I wall run and jump. Then I spin my body towards Guru and land a kick on his head but he blocks it.

*CRACK*

Tsch! Guru grabs my right leg with his hand and smacks me into the machine right behind us.

*SMASH*

"Good agility but zero strength in it." Guru says to me as I get back up. My body is filled up with bruises. Damn, I am going to be in the hospital bed for quite sometime after this battle. Even with my vest armour, this guy is doing a lot of damage to me. He is strong...Really, strong...

"Come on now, Marshal. You don't expect to win by just standing there all beaten up, do you?" Guru asks me. "Nah, I am just thinking about a tactic." I reply to Guru. Guru smiles. "Thinking about a tactic in mid-battle? YOU ARE STILL A NOOB!" Guru says to me and rushes towards me. Guru readies his fist to punch me. I dodge his fist and attack his face again.

*CRACK*

"Is that the best you got?" Guru asks me. "WHAT?!" That was my first expression. He didn't even feel it. "COME ON MARSHAL!" Guru grabs my face. "Let's go on a ride shall we." Guru says to me. He drags me through the ground and into a wall in front of us breaking it through.

*SMASH*

I am sent flying towards a wall after Guru breaks the wall. "Damn...It..." Those were my last words before I fell down on the ground...Unconscious...

My eyes slowly open up. I feel numb and dizzy. I soon gain my consciousness and realise that I am tied to a rope. "Oh hey, finally your up, leader..." Jacob is tied with me. I see to my right and and Ashley is tied with us. "I thought I told you don't go barging in, didn't I?" I ask. "I am sorry Henry, we just thought that someone might have been in trouble." Ashley says to me. "It's alright."

"Look at whose awake." That's Janis huh. This room...It's filled with those criminals that escaped. The only one that is missing is that man with crazy tattoos, Varrier. "Now, why are you here? You aren't even knights to begin with." Janis asks us. "Wait, how do you know we are not knights?!" Jacob asks Janis with a surprise in his voice. "Have you taken me for a fool?" Janis asks Jacob with an angry tone...This is why Jacob needs to study about Knights a little more. "Knights have badges that are given to them indicating their position as a knight." I say. "We, obviously don't have a badge. So, it's quite obvious that we are not knights...At least to her." I continue. "To me huh? What are you some kind of secret service Knight order, sent to take me down?" Janis asks me as she gets close to my face. "Very interesting...When I checked your the eyes of your friends they were somewhat afraid to be here...But you...You are a completely different being. You have no fear whatsoever in your eyes." She says to me.

"Fear huh? I am afraid but I just don't know how to express it." I say. The girl who looks like a doll, Victoria looks at me with her eyes widen when I said that sentence. "Funny you say that. No human can hide their fear. You are just simply not afraid to be tied up...SO HOW ABOUT I KILL YOU!!!!"

*Clack*

Janis stabs a knife on the floor between my legs. "Hey Janis, aren't you going a little too far?" Guru asks Janis. "Is that the best threat you got?" I ask Janis in a mocking tone and a smug. "What?! HOW DARE YOU?!" Janis removes the knife from the ground and gets ready to stab me "JANIS STOP!" Guru screams from far distance. "You care a lot about this person who is helping the knights...Fine then." Janis smiles "Of course that's not the best threat I have got." Janis says to me. "Killing you will be no fun." Janis continues. "No you are not going to do that to him!" Guru says to Janis as he sweat. "Don't you dare get in my way, his mine." Janis says to Guru. Guru starts sweating and falls to his hips. Damn, one of the two person who isn't afraid of Guru has to be Janis but what did she do to him. "The eye of mana is way dangerous then I could ever imagine." Guru mumbles something to himself but I can't hear what his saying.

"Shit! She's going to use her magic, Henry." Jacob begins to struggle but nothing comes of it. "YOU DON'T WANT TO BE HIT BY HER MAGIC, HENRY!" Even Ashley. Both Jacob and Ashley are scared. What's this magic all about?

"Time show you what my magic can do." Janis smiles. "From the desires that lie deep inside, show me what it is you lie to yourself about and show what is your deepest darkest fear." Janis chants her spell. "Fear Magic: Mind-Breaker." A red aura begins to appear around Janis's fingers which are touching the side of my forehead. Janis's eyes begin to turn red.

"Oh no..." Jacob seems to be quite concerned. "This is bad...Henry..." Even Ashley seems to be really nervous. I keep looking straight into Janis's eyes. Janis's eyes widens. "KYAAAAAA!!!!!" She screams and leaves my head. "JANIS!" Guru and everyone in the room run towards Janis. Janis continuously keeps on holding onto her face and screaming. "Henry, what did you do to that leader chick?" Jacob asks me. "I have no idea..." I say. What else am I supposed to say? I literally have no idea what happened here. "Somehow you backfired Janis's mind-breaker...That's crazy...." Guru says to me. I am confused by what that meant. "I have never seen Janis in such a dire state before...Who are you and how did you do it?" The guy with long nail, Kite, asks me. "I seriously have no idea about what just happened." I say to Kite. "Whatever it is...It has effected Janis greatly to have her screaming this much." Guru says as Janis continues to scream.

In all of this confusion...Ashley worked out a plan. Her magic is transformation magic and she has quite a control on it. She transforms her one of her hands into a wolf's paw and cuts off the ropes. "EVERYONE NOW!" From the top arrives Erica and pounces on Kite. Ashley gives a rest to her magic and sits down exhausted. "It's alright Ashley, you did your part." I say and go after Guru. Our match is still not over but before I could take on Guru, the robotic girl comes right in front of me. Jacob then goes after Guru. "Time for the real action to begin."